A-F Accountability Overview

"The 84th Legislature passed HB
2804, changing the Texas school accountability system so that every
campus and district receives one of five ratings from A-F. Much like
students receive grades in individual subjects and those are combined
for a GPA, the law requires schools and districts to be issued grades
based on five different areas of performance or “domains,” and those
five grades must be combined into a single overall rating." (excerpt
from the Texas Education Agency (TEA) A-F Overview)

Beginning
in Spring 2018, each campus and the district will receive a letter grade
A-F for each of five domains: Student Performance, Student Progress,
Closing Performance Gaps, Postsecondary Readiness, and Community and
Student Engagement and an overall A-F rating. Although this rating
system is slated to begin in 2018, the first week in January, 2017 TEA
released a "work-in-progress" model of the A-F ratings based on the
grade each campus and the district would have received for Domains I-IV
for 2015-16 had the A-F rating system been in place. This preliminary
A-F rating does not impact the official 2016 district or campus
accountability rating.

Klein ISD, refers to this release of
preliminary grades as the unofficial “What If” ratings and strongly
believes that a single letter grade is not and will never represent all
that is occurring on Klein ISD campuses and throughout the district. The
reduction of our schools to a single grade in each of four domains
discards and devalues the unique qualities and gifts of over 51,000
students and unfairly reducing every student to a school’s assigned
grades.

Below is the Board of Trustees resolution, a letter to
the community from Superintendent Champion, and numerous videos and
press releases that speak to the district's dissatisfaction with the
complicated accountability system that does little to improve public
schools but much to hurt the students and employees working hard
everyday within the state's school systems.